.David is the co-creator and producer of two successful television comedies, Seinfeld (1989–1998) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–).^Larry David is the co-creator of Seinfeld and the creator and crankily acerbic star of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm .

.Formerly a standup comedian, David went into television comedy, writing and starring in ABC's Fridays, as well as writing briefly for Saturday Night Live.^We knew he spent an unproductive year writing for Saturday Night Live.

^Initially, David was the more successful of the duo – he landed a writing and performing job on the sketch comedy series “Fridays” (ABC, 1980-82) where he met future “Seinfeld” collaborators Larry Charles, Michael Richards, Melanie Chartoff and Bruce Mahler, and as a writer on “Saturday Night Live (NBC, 1975- ) from 1984-85, where he met Julia-Louis Dreyfus.

.He was voted by other comedians the 23rd-greatest comedian of all time in British Channel 4's poll The Comedians' Comedian.^He was voted by other comedians the 23rd-greatest comedian of all time in the British Channel 4 The Comedians' Comedian poll.

^The fifth season of his current show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is about to be released on DVD and in a recent poll in which comedy professionals were asked to name their favourite comedians of all time he was ranked 23rd.

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^He was not like all the other photographers of that time when they shot color,” said his good friend Horst Faas, the distinguished Associated Press photographer.

.From May 2005, both Larry and Laurie were contributing bloggers at The Huffington Post.^Continue reading " The Huffington Post " By Jason Toney in Miscellaneous on May 9, 2005 8:29 AM [ Share + ] add to digg add to stumble upon add to reddit email this The Huffington Post @laist tweet this add to facebook .

[6][7] On June 5, 2007, the couple announced their intention to amicably separate.[8].Laurie David filed for divorce on July 19, 2007, citing irreconcilable differences and seeking joint custody of the couple's two daughters.^Laurie David Cazzie David (daughter) Born c.

Career

Early work

.While a stand-up comedian, David also worked as a store clerk, limousine driver, and television repairman to pay his bills.^As the co-creator of Seinfeld and the creator/star of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm , comedian Larry David is best known for his work on television.

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^Bill Donohue , president of the Catholic League, said David should "quit while he's ahead," and that the show was proof that the comedian had passed his sell-by date.

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^He worked as an undergarment salesman, paralegal, cab driver, and limousine driver between bouts of unemployment.

.He lived in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan across the hall from Kenny Kramer, the inspiration for the Cosmo Kramer character in Seinfeld.^The character of Kramer (Michael Richards) was inspired by David’s own offbeat neighbor in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, Kenny Kramer, and the infamous “Contest” episode, in which the four main characters attempt to refrain from masturbating, was based on a real-life competition he conducted with friends.

[10].David then became a writer for and cast member of ABC's Fridays from 1980 to 1982, and a writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1984 to 1985.[11] During his time at SNL, he was able to get only one sketch on the show, which aired at 12:50 AM, the last time slot on the show.^He stayed with the show until 1982 when he was hired as a writer on "Saturday Night Live."

That plot inspired a second-season episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Revenge."[13] David met his future Seinfeld stars during that early stage of his career: He worked with Michael Richards (Kramer) on Fridays[11] and with Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine)[12] during his one-year stint as a writer on SNL.[14][15] He can be heard heckling Michael McKean when McKean hosted the show in 1984, and he can be seen in the sketch "The Run, Throw, and Catch Like a Girl Olympics" when Howard Cosell hosted the season finale in 1985.[16]

Seinfeld

.In 1989, David teamed up with comedianJerry Seinfeld to create NBC's The Seinfeld Chronicles.^"When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, 'every erection is a miracle,'" Donohue's statement continued.

.Later retitled Seinfeld, the program became the most successful show in United States television history[17], reaching the top on TV Guide's list 50 greatest TV shows of all time and Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the 3rd Best TV shows of All Time, the highest sitcom in that list.^Show is my favourite show of all time.

^Not only did he make television history with Seinfeld -- one of the most popular sitcoms to ever grace the airwaves -- but two years after the series ended, David made a stellar return with the hit HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

^First, Seinfeld , the most successful sitcom in US television history (largely because it broke as many rules of network TV as it adhered to), and now his altogether edgier cable venture Curb Your Enthusiasm , already well established as a cult hit in the United States and rapidly becoming one in the UK. .

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.October 2009" style="white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed] David occasionally appeared (uncredited) on the show, playing roles such as Frank Costanza's cape-wearing lawyer and providing the voice of George Steinbrenner.^After so many years of playing himself on his own show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, it must have been a strange experience giving voice to a character written by someone else, no?

^Although David did not actually appear in Seinfeld (except as a voice cameo doing an impersonation of the proprietor of the Yankees baseball team, George Steinbrenner), he came up with the idea along with his friend and fellow New York stand-up Jerry Seinfeld, put more than a little of himself into the character of the strangely lovable loser George Costanza (played by Jason Alexander), wrote many of the episodes and served as producer for seven of the show's nine seasons.

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^In addition to serving as one of the driving creative forces of the show, David was also the inspiration for the George Constanza character (Alexander) and frequently provided voice-over work.

.He was also the primary inspiration for the show's George Costanza character.^In addition to serving as one of the driving creative forces of the show, David was also the inspiration for the George Constanza character (Alexander) and frequently provided voice-over work.

[19].He also continued to provide the voice for the character of George Steinbrenner.^In addition to serving as one of the driving creative forces of the show, David was also the inspiration for the George Constanza character (Alexander) and frequently provided voice-over work.

.As well as re-writing and re-working all of the show's scripts with Seinfeld during the first seven seasons, David wrote or co-wrote 57 of the 180 episodes of the series.^David was gone from "Seinfeld" when they did the final season show where Kramer accidentally burned the Puerto Rican flag, but IIRC, that created its own outrage, and NBC opted not to show the episode in reruns and issued an apology to anyone who was offended.

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^And, while you're there, find out more about great theater all over the map, including news, reviews, listings, and tickets to every show!

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^The desecration occurred on an episode of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm , as the character played by star of the show and Seinfeld co-creator, Larry David, has taken medicine that increases his urine flow and while taking a bathroom break at the house of a Christian family, he splatters urine on a painting of Jesus Christ that some members of the family mistake for a miracle of weeping.

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.Syndication of Seinfeld earned David an estimated US$250 million in 1998 alone.^When the show came to a close in 1998, both David and Seinfeld found themselves in a staggering windfall of income thanks to syndication and DVD rights; by some accounts, David had earned over $500 million from his work on “Seinfeld.” Now financially secure but without a project, David began mulling over a return to stand-up.

This amount has been steadily decreasing each year, but payments will continue until the full $1.7 billion from the original deal has been paid in full. .In 2008 David made $55 million from Seinfeld syndication, DVD sales, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.^Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 05 .

[21][22].He was nominated for an Emmy award 19 times for Seinfeld, winning twice—once for best comedy and once for writing.^(Somewhat ironically, he won Emmys as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in both of those years.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The HBOcable television channel aired David's 1-hour special, Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, on October 17, 1999.[24] This was followed by Curb Your Enthusiasm, a television series on HBO that aired its first episode on October 15, 2000.[24]

It revisits many of the themes first brought up in Seinfeld.[25].The show is improvised, with the actors receiving a synopsis of their scene for them to act out.^This show, too, started out unevenly, as the actors felt their way into their characters and an appropriate pace and rhythm was found for the vérité style.

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^I enjoyed the latter part of the episode with Richard and Larry acting out the scene from the fantasy, and seeing Larry hanging on from Maureen’s stomach was absolutely hysterical.

.David has commented that his character in the show, which is a fictionalized version of himself, is what he would be like in real life if he lacked social awareness and sensitivity.^Kind of like what Larry did in real life to hide himself.

[26].Fictional Larry's numerous and frequent social faux pas and misunderstandings are the basis of much of the show's comedy and have led to the expression "Larry David moment", meaning inadvertently creating a socially awkward situation, entering the American pop culture lexicon.^Larry David: The miserable king of comedy .

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^The popularity of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" has resulted in the term "Larry David moment," meaning inadvertently causing a socially awkward situation, entering the American pop culture lexicon.

.The basis of the show is Larry's life now that he has earned a fortune and has very little to do in semi-retirement.^But you need a Larry David to convince you that your very conversations are what the show should be about.

[28].Alongside David is his wife Cheryl (played by Cheryl Hines), his manager and best friend Jeff (played by Jeff Garlin), and Jeff's wife Susie (played by Susie Essman).^He almost allowed his best friend/manager's teen daughter to drown in the ocean because he didn't want his Blackberry to get wet.

.Celebrities including comedians Bob Einstein, Wanda Sykes, and Richard Lewis, appear on the show regularly.^Tonight's show A look back at the most notorious stories of the week, with comedians Judy Gold, Cory Kahaney and celebrity journalist Ben Widdicombe.

.The show is critically acclaimed and has been nominated for thirty Primetime Emmy Awards, with one win, as well as one Golden Globe win.^UPCOMING GUESTS 1/11: Valerie Bertinelli 1/12: Mandy Moore 1/13: Jillian Michaels 1/14: Joan Rivers About Joy Behar As an Emmy Award-winning co-host of ABC's "The View," as well as an acclaimed comedian, actress, best-selling author and radio host, Joy Behar is considered one of today’s most popular personalities.

.Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander appeared in several episodes of the first six seasons, and Jerry Seinfeld made a cameo.^The stars of "Seinfeld" -- Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards -- are set to reunite on several episodes of next season's "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

^Another running joke on this year's Curb is David's fruitless, season-long effort to pitch a new sitcom, based on the rigor mortis suffered by Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus--played straight by Alexander and Louis-Dreyfus--cast forever in the shadows of their Seinfeld characters.

.In season seven, the cast of Seinfeld, including Michael Richards, returned in a story arc involving Larry's attempt to organize a Seinfeld reunion special.^The Seinfeld cast (even Michael Richards) was pitch perfect.

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^The season has included TV Larry's split with wife Cheryl (mirroring David's real-life split with wife Laurie David) and a planned 'Seinfeld' reunion show that has led to guest appearances by Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards.

.In October 2009, the episode The Bare Midriff was the focus of some criticism when Fox News reported that Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, criticized the episode, in which David's character inadvertently splatters urine on a picture of Jesus, causing a woman to believe the picture shows Jesus crying.^Bill Donohue , president of the Catholic League, said in a statement released Monday.

^The humor is always playful and certainly never malicious.” The network would not reveal how many emails Chairman and CEO Bill Nelson has received since Donohue shared his email address at the end of his statement, but HBO does tell EW that most of the emails followed some sort of form letter and that the senders seemed not to have seen the episode themselves.

.David wrote and directed the 1998 filmSour Grapes, about two cousins who feud over a casino jackpot.^After the series finished in 1998, David wrote and directed the movie Sour Grapes, then — initially as a one-off stand-up special — created Curb Your Enthusiasm for HBO, in which he seems to play himself, a retired sitcom millionaire coping with the eccentricities of LA life.

^Synopsis: Woody Allen writes and directs this "blackish comedy" about an eccentric upper-class New Yorker ( Larry David ) who abandons his comfortable lifestyle in favor of leading a more bohemian existence.

[24] It was neither a commercial nor a critical success.[30][31].He has appeared in minor parts in two Woody Allen films – Radio Days and New York Stories[32] – more recently taking the leading role in Allen's New York-based comedy film Whatever Works.^David spent much of the rest of the '80s appearing in small roles in such films as Radio Days (1987) and New York Stories (1989).

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[33].Because his daughters are Hannah Montana fans, David, along with them, guest-starred in the episode "My Best Friend's Boyfriend" as themselves.^Source: Entertainment Weekly Extra Tidbit: David guest starred on an episode of "Hannah Montana" titled "My Best Friend's Boyfriend."

In this episode, they are waiting to get a table at a fancy restaurant.[24].David had a cameo appearance on the HBO series Entourage as a client of Ari Gold, as well as on the NBC series The Marriage Ref.^Larry David , who served in the Army Reserve in the 1970's, appears in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

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.You're the ones sending them over to die, so how is it I
don’t support them?^I know some people find it strange that I write seven days a week and hardly ever take a day off (I’ve taken one day off so far in 2007), but honestly, if you like what you’re doing, I don’t know why you’d want to take a day off.

If the army was made up of child molesters,
then I'd support them. If we went to an all child molester army, I
would be their biggest supporter. "Please don't bring the troops
home. Stay the course. Keep them there a long time." But they're
not child molesters. .And they're not the Twins, that’s for sure.^David says, "I'm sure that most people in the audience take the doctor's side, because they want to think that they're unselfish and would share.

Where are the Twins? Send in the Twins. I'd like to hear that
scene. "Jenna, Barbara... .Daddy and I have talked it over and we
want you to go fight in Iraq."^December (19) Where do YOU want to go from here?

(Asked if he believes in miracles) I believe that every
erection is a miracle.^When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, ‘every erection is a miracle.’ That’s what passes for creativity these days.

^When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers: "Every erection is a miracle."

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^"When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, 'every erection is a miracle,' Donohue's statement continued.

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